2 Mob Leaders arrested for Parading Teenagers naked at Adawso

Police have arrested two people in connection with the Adawso, who stripped two teenagers naked and paraded them on the streets of Adawso Akuapem, in the Akuapem North Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Information gathered by Soiree news from Adawso indicates that the two men who led the mob in the inhuman act are in the police gripes and they were only identified as Larbi and Akwei.

According to the Police reports, signed by the Director-General of Police’s Public Affairs, ACP Kwesi Ofori, the victims were subjected to this human rights abuse with their hands tied after being accused of allegedly stealing GH¢100 and a mobile phone.

The incident which saw the two 14-year-old boys assaulted by a mob occurred on Friday, October 29, 2022, in Adawso.

A statement signed by the Director-General of Police’s Public Affairs, ACP Kwesi Ofori indicated that the two victims are being chauffeured to the Police Hospital in Accra for medical attention.

Besides the arrest, the November 3rd statement explained that “psychologists have also been assigned to counsel the families of the victims.”

Furthermore, the police also cautioned the public against “engaging in unlawful acts or risk being arrested and prosecuted.”

2 arrested for parading teenagers naked on the streets of Adawso in the Akuapem North Municipality.

They were paraded without clothes through the Tinkong stretch of the Koforidua -Mamfe highway to the Adawso township.

 Below is the statement

William Ofori Akwaboa, Eastern Regional Correspondent